From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:02:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:02:13 -0400 Received: from jalon.able.es ([212.97.163.2]:61069 "EHLO jalon.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:02:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 02:05:30 +0200 From: "J . A . Magallon" To: Larry McVoy Cc: "J . A . Magallon" , landley@webofficenow.com, Mikulas Patocka , Timur Tabi , "linux-kernel @ vger . kernel . org" Subject: Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads) Message-ID: <20010625020530.A10509@werewolf.able.es> In-Reply-To: <0106220929490F.00692@localhost.localdomain> <20010624234101.A1619@werewolf.able.es> <01062412555901.03436@localhost.localdomain> <20010625003002.A1767@werewolf.able.es> <20010624165024.H8832@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <20010624165024.H8832@work.bitmover.com>; from lm@bitmover.com on Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 01:50:24 +0200 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.6-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 20010625 Larry McVoy wrote: > >One for the quotes page, eh? We're terribly sorry, we'll get busy on adding >some delay loops in Linux so it too can be slow. >-- I was afraid someone would tell that... I just want to say that the 'problem' is not that threads are slow in linux, but that others ways are faster than they 'should be if done the standard way'. BTW, after all I have read all POSIX threads library should be no more than a wrapper over fork(), clone and so on. Why are they so bad then ? I am going to get glibc source to see what is inside pthread_create... -- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:jamagallon@able.es Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.5-ac17 #2 SMP Fri Jun 22 01:36:07 CEST 2001 i686